Omnicom is to combine the media operation at full-service Griffin Bacal with BMP Optimum, it has emerged.Griffin Bacal, which will still run a media department, will now be able to use Optimum’s buying power and will also join MGM as part of Optimum’s TV dealings.Griffin Bacal: 0171 831 4555
Cable & Wireless, the global group which owns Cable & Wireless Communications, has seen half-year pre-tax profits jump 52% to £1.12 billion. Turnover jumped 15% to £3.38 billion.The biggest problem for the group at the moment is the current turmoil in the Asian stock markets which has raised question marks over C&W’s Hong Kong operation:… Continue reading Cable Company Profits Grow
Carlton Food Network is to extend its transmission hours by beginning broadcasts at 9.00am from 5 January. This represents an extra three hours a day, with the channel broadcasting from 9 to 5. The Network will open the day with Food Network Daily.Carlton Food Network: 0171 432 9000
The Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) has announced ‘wide ranging’ changes to its annual CAVIAR (Cinema and Video Industry Audience Research) survey. Representatives from the film and advertising industries contributed to the redesign process run by BMRB International. The changes to CAVIAR include: talking to children as young as four to understand their impressions of cinema… Continue reading CAA Redesigns Cinema Audience Research
Sky Television has today announced that its new pay-per view movie service will begin broadcasting on Sky Box Office on 1 December.The channel will show a choice of around ten recent movie releases each month from a number of film studios, including Buena Vista International Television, Paramountm Polygram, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Negotiations… Continue reading Sky Announces PPV Movie Details
The proposed takeover of Virgin Radio by Capital Radio has been put on hold after Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, decided to extend the deadline for the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to make its report. The MMC had been due to make its report on 14 November but this has now been… Continue reading Capital/Virgin Decision Delayed
ITV’s plans to change its sales policy (subscribers see Sales Houses Propose Change) are being considered by the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) which, in turn, is seeking the view of the IPA. ITV plans to negotiate advertising deals on the basis of the share of clients’ total expenditure on TV advertising rather than… Continue reading ISBA Consults IPA On ITV Sales Policy
BSkyB has announced a drop of £4.7m in pre-tax profits for the three months to September, from £66.3 million to £61.6 million. Revenue however grew 24% to £330.2m. It is also expected that Sam Chisholm will hand over the chief executive title to Mark Booth, JSkyB’s chief operating officer, at today’s company meeting.The reason for… Continue reading Drop In Profits At BSkyB As Chisholm Steps Down
The Sunday Telegraph‘s special offers continued to reap dividends in October, when circulation grew 23.9% to 886,954. This was the highest year on year May-October growth among all the nationals. In the broadsheet market as a whole there were only two titles which saw a drop in sales from last year: the Independent fell 1.7%… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – October
The Liberal Democrat trade and industry spokesman in the Lords, Lord McNally, has criticised News International’s newspaper price cuts, particularly The Times which sells at 10p on Mondays. Rupert Murdoch’s News International, which also publishes the Sun for 28p daily, has been attacked by a number of Government figures including Robin Cook, Mo Mowlam and… Continue reading Murdoch’s Newspaper Price Cuts Attacked
